CARLSEN VIDEO RELEASED !A new Magnus Carlsen
instructional video has been released. Adding to his successes OTB
and as a fashion model, Carlsen has released "Dress for Chess" instructing OTB
players how to be properly clothed (haute couture) for tournament play. And
as a sop to CC players there is an included special feature "Addressed for
Chess" which details how to properly address a postcard for CC play.The video is featured on
Norwegian TV channel 64 and is available at your nearest Chess King clothing
store.

He began playing in many
CC tournaments with some success eventually qualifying for the 1976 Finnish
championship as the lowest rated player. On the starting date he made his
decision to some day become World Correspondence Chess Champion. He also
decided to work in such a way to achieve that goal, no matter what it
demanded! He won the Finnish championship, and that
qualified him for the Eino Heilimo Memorial Tournament. His result
there was 7/14 gaining him the IM title (1980).

Thanks to the IM title
he could take place in the Yugoslav-50 Tournament, a GM event. He
finished in fifth place with 8 ½ out of 13, and the GM title. At
that time (1985) he was the second youngest GM among the 90 in the world.

On October 25, 2004, he
began play in the 20th World Correspondence Championship and
finished his last game on May 30, 2008. When his main competition
could not win his final game, Pertti Lehikoinen fulfilled his quest to become
World Champion. The 20th Championship was the last
to be played by postal.

GAME
OF THE MONTHThe new World Champion
shows his mastery throughout in this difficult game from the World Championship. Thanks
to Carlos Flores Gutierrez for supplying the game.

LEARN CHESS BY MAIL
! Lessons given by mail, telephone, ICC - many different ways. I
specialize in players rated 800-2100 who would like to improve their
game. Contact me for information. Alex Dunne, 324 West Lockhart St., Sayre, PA
18840 or chesskinetics@stny.rr.comIM RIZZO ANNOTATES !

IM Robert Rizzo
annotates his win against James Fisher from the 1999 Absolute Championship.BENONI GAME (A46)

BOOK REVIEW: CORRESPONDENCE CHESS IN BRITAIN
AND IRELAND 1824-1987 by TIM HARDING

I generally like to
actually read the book before doing a book review. It helps when the
reviewer has read the material and can weigh and evaluate it. However
reading all 433 pages of Correspondence Chess in Britain and Ireland
from 1824 to 1987 and playing over all the included games is a
daunting task. So far I have made it up to page 106, and I am enjoying it.

If you are a collector
of correspondence books (and who isn't !?) or a CC history buff, this is an
excellent book for your collection. Tim Harding has performed
a Herculean task in collecting and commenting on the material here (I am
skimming but it looks very thorough!)

I will (I promise!) read
all the way through this book, but from what I have seen already, it is a
valuable contribution to the history of correspondence chess.
Postcards to go up to 29 centsThe time has come, the
postmaster said,To speak of many thingsOf checks and mates and
postal rates
That make a postcard sting.

The US Post Office is
raising the rate to send a postcard to 29 cents on April 17.